The Indiana University Board of Trustees approved seven new degrees for seven IU campuses. They will be offering six new graduate degrees and one new undergraduate degree.
7 New Degrees For 7 IU Campuses
6 New Graduate Degrees And 1 New Undergraduate Degree
The Indiana University Board of Trustees approved seven new degrees for seven IU campuses. They will be offering six new graduate degrees and one new undergraduate degree including a collaborative Master of Science in education technology for learning -- offered by IU East, IUPUI, IU Kokomo, IU Southeast and IU South Bend -- through IU Online.
Students follow a rigorous and innovative curriculum in which they learn to use digital tools to improve student learning that meets the urgent need for educators who can engage learners in 21st-century skills.
IUPUI began offering education technology courses in 2009 as part of its education master's degree program, and after consultation with school districts and teachers, it developed a proposal for a teacher-focused online degree that would complement three education technology-related credentials offered by IU Bloomington. The new degree focuses on preparing current teachers to improve their own teaching or become instructional technology coordinators.
The new online Master of Science in criminal justice and public safety at IU Northwest will draw on the teaching resources of five IU campuses to provide working professionals with a high-quality online degree. Designed for individuals who seek to sharpen their skills and develop new strategies to the administration of justice and promotion of public safety. Graduates will be well positioned to attain leadership roles in a variety of public and private organizations.
IU Bloomington has two more new Master of Science degrees: A Master of Science in genome, cell and developmental biology and a Master of Science in neuroscience. Both degrees are offered by the College of Arts and Sciences and are available for students who opt to leave either program prior to the completion of a doctoral degree.
Another master's degree approved for the Bloomington campus is a Master of Arts in curatorship, which will leverage existing scholarly strengths across a range of disciplines and academic units to offer intellectual and professional preparation to students seeking careers in the study, collection, care and display of material culture. It will be housed within the University Graduate School and composed of courses from the College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering; and the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
A 120-credit Bachelor of Science in data science at IU Bloomington will be jointly offered by the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering in collaboration with the Departments of Statistics, Mathematics and Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students will choose from five specialization tracks -- foundational data science, data systems, network and applied data science, data sciences design, and biological and health data science-- and will complete a two semester-long capstone project within that specialization area in their fourth year. Graduates can pursue careers as data scientists, data analysts, quantitative developers, risk analytics leads, predictive modeling analysts, big data platform engineers and more.
A Ph.D. in musculoskeletal health sciences at the IU School of Medicine is designed to build upon the strengths of the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health, which was formally established in the IU School of Medicine in 2016. The program will further leverage excellent bone, joint and muscle biomedical research by creating a degree option that functions as a recruitment tool to attract the most competitive doctoral degree applicants with interests in this growing area of biomedical research.
The degrees approved by the trustees still await final approval by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
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